Publications by authors named "Clarisse Rocha"
The interaction between animal movement and roads is pervasive, but little is known of the effects of the land-use patterns in roadside landscapes on roadkill events. Here, we compared wildlife roadkill along two road stretches that cross landscapes with different land-use patterns, including the presence of protected areas in Central Brazil. Sampling was conducted in 2017 and 2018 in two seasons (dry and rainy).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCattle present variable levels of resistance to ticks and the immune correlates of these heritable phenotypes must be known in order to develop effective vaccines. The antibody responses to tick salivary antigens were examined in cattle of tick-susceptible (Holstein) and tick-resistant (Nelore) breeds. After heavy infestations, levels of IgG1 and IgG2 antibodies decreased in Holsteins and remained the same in Nelores.
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- The study explores new control strategies for ticks by using high throughput genomics to identify relevant genes related to reproduction, defense, and feeding.
- Researchers analyzed the transcriptomes of various tick tissues, generating over 1,344 expressed sequence tags (EST) with about 30% representing novel sequences.
- This research aims to contribute to the NCBI database and provides a foundation for developing immunobiological or chemical control methods against ticks.